The exercise revealed something common amongst actors and increasingly common in everyday life: a short tolerance for psychological discomfort.

Sitting in discomfort is a skill that appears to be increasingly avoided. Whether that be emotional or physical pain, or even the discomfort of being challenged, wrong or just different. Perhaps it’s social media and the increasingly divided world we live in?

…each generation should stand on the shoulders of giants and attempt to answer these questions all over again for themselves, using all the information of the day: Combine what we know and what we have been taught, with the knowledge we have such easy access to on behavioural and neurological studies and evolving psychological theory. Technique will evolve and itself will be superseded in its time.